Julie Torres

Who is Julie Torres? 

Julie Miller Torres spent nearly seven years as a lawyer before she became a printmaker. Her work still reads like a case file: it is built on research, structure, and a close eye for detail. Today she makes woven screen prints and crocheted paper pieces from her Atlanta studio, and her work hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From Law Office to Print Studio

Torres was born in Boise, Idaho, and raised in Tallahassee, Florida. She earned a BA and a JD from the University of Florida, then an LLM from the University of Miami. She practiced law before she made her way back to art, which she first studied as a child.

In 2016 she earned a BFA in Printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She was in her early thirties, and she came out of school ready to work.

The law did not stay behind. She still follows Supreme Court opinions, and she researches each series like a brief.

Woven Screen Prints and Paper Quilts

Torres starts with screenprint, then cuts, interlaces, and weaves the printed pages. She also crochets paper. The results look like textiles, which is the point. Her influences include weaving, embroidery, and quilting.

What to look for up close:

• Bold color and pattern that read from across the room
• Printed strips that cross over and under each other
• Small, visible signs of the hand, which she keeps on purpose

Her website groups the work into portraits, quilts, flags, and crocheted paper pieces.

Nation of Laws

Nation of Laws is a U.S. flag, 77 by 45 inches, made from the pages of a constitutional law textbook. A law school colleague gave her the book. Torres turned its pages into more than a mile of paper thread, then crocheted the flag by hand.

From a distance it reads as a flag. Closer in, you can see highlighted passages and handwritten notes in the margins. She has called it her strongest work, because it joins her legal training with her art practice. It was shown at Art Miami.

Super Diva! at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

In 2020, Torres made Super Diva!, a 20 by 16 inch screenprint of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A New York collector first saw it on Instagram. The Metropolitan Museum of Art then added it to its permanent print collection.

The Met included the print in Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Revolution, Resistance, and Activism, which opened in July 2021. The same year, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Florida Bar News both covered the acquisition.

Law, Systems, and a Delicate Hand

Torres looks at the balance between systems: natural and artificial, societal and legal. She often works legal text into her art, then softens it with a light, careful touch. The words carry the weight. The surface carries the care.

Her subjects include landmark cases and the people behind them. Her senior thesis at SCAD focused on the Lilly Ledbetter case and the Equal Pay Act. Her colors stay hopeful. As she puts it, "I do have a passion for the law that's never left."

Her 2026 solo exhibition, Generations, at the Gadsden Arts Center & Museum in Quincy, Florida, brought her work back to the region where she grew up.

Collecting Julie Miller Torres

Her work is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Delta Air Lines, the Ritz-Carlton, JW Marriott, Norwegian Cruise Line, the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation, and the Savannah College of Art & Design. Her pieces suit a long hallway, an office wall, or a room that needs texture as much as color.

Visit Carousel Fine Art in Miami, the NORA District in West Palm Beach, Atlanta's Buckhead Village, Chicago, [or Nashville, confirm] to ask about available works.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Julie Miller Torres? Julie Miller Torres is an Atlanta-based printmaker, born in Boise, Idaho, and raised in Tallahassee, Florida. A former lawyer, she holds a BFA in Printmaking from SCAD. Her work explores the balance between natural and artificial systems and between societal and legal ones.

Is Julie Miller Torres in the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Yes. Her screenprint Super Diva! (2020), a portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is in the Met's permanent print collection. The Met showed it in 2021.

What is a woven screen print? A woven screen print starts as a screenprinted image. The artist cuts the print into strips and weaves them together, so the image breaks apart and rebuilds. Torres is best known for this technique.

What is Nation of Laws? Nation of Laws is a hand-crocheted U.S. flag, 77 by 45 inches, made from pages of a constitutional law textbook turned into paper thread.

Why does Julie Torres use legal text in her art? She practiced law before becoming an artist. Legal documents and landmark cases give her work its content, and a delicate visual style gives it form.

Where can I buy Julie Miller Torres art? Carousel Fine Art carries her work in Miami, West Palm Beach (NORA District), Atlanta (Buckhead Village), and Chicago. [Nashville, confirm.] Contact the gallery about available pieces.